
Siddiq hits back at Bangladesh over arrest warrant
Back to the curious case of Tulip Siddiq, Labour’s former anti-corruption minister who has been issued with an arrest warrant by Bangladesh over, um, corruption. Earlier this month, the Hampstead and Highgate MP was slapped with the warrant after the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) submitted a criminal charge sheet against the politician over investigations involving her aunt, and Bangladesh’s recently deposed prime minister, Sheikh Hasina. Now Siddiq’s lawyers have pushed back, accusing the country’s authorities of failing to uphold the MP’s ‘fundamental right to justice’. And so it rumbles on… Siddiq’s legal representatives blasted Bangladesh’s ACC for having ‘failed to provide a single piece of documentary evidence’ against her after
